Incentives as effective as penalties for slowing Amazon deforestation
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jun 30, 2014 - The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has declined. An international team of scientists, including one from Virginia Tech, reviewed published research about policy interventions and commodity market effects, and determined that positive incentives for farmers, counties, and states can do as much to preserve forests as public policies that call for penalties. "The challenge now ... more
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